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The Railway Tunnel
At the weekend, we travelled up to North Devon to finally celebrate my mum’s 70th, eighteen months late. We’d re-booked the holiday cottage three times. It was a wonderful, glowing time of family, good food, long walks, and pottering around … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged 70th birthday, author, autumn, Avery Buckle, book locations, cannonmills, cat, children's author, countryside, devon, England, halloween, Hannah Foley, holiday, magic, middle grade fiction, middle grade novel, North Devon, places, railway tunnel, rope swing, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches
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Pants
Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy
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At long last…
I hope you enjoyed my delvings into the folklore behind my children’s novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle over the last few weeks. In the mean time, life has been marching on… the swifts arrived and with them, finally, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Avery Buckle, countryside, devon, father's day, four-leaf clover, grasses, Hannah Foley, june, meadow, orchard, orchid, ox-eye daisies, swifts, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, toblerone, yorkshire
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Wet towels
I left the towels on the line for three days before I gave in and brought them in to dry indoors. The days have been full of fog and mist down here in the South West. Yesterday we drove out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged christmas, Christmas tree, combe, countryside, COVID-19, December, devon, England, family, fog, mist, oak tree, ridgeway, southwest, swing, towels, tree, tyre swing, walk, wood
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Tram-tastic
With all that’s been going on with Covid, instead of our planned trip to North Wales the week before last, we decided to stay at home and do local day trips. One of these was a trip to Seaton. Seaton … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged alan gardner, Blackpool, bookshop, Britain, claude lane, coastal town, colyford, colyton, countryside, day trip, devon, east devon, eastbourne, holiday, lancaster electrical company, Owl and Pyramid, rhyl, roman port, saxon town, seaton, Seaton tramway, seaton wetlands, southwest, trams, UK
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Mini adventures
The car I drive for work is a Mini I inherited from my father-in-law. Whether I’m negotiating tight passing places in narrow country lanes or squeezing into impossible parking spots in town, it’s ideal. It has a small boot crammed … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside
Tagged bandages, car, countryside, COVID-19, devon, district nursing, hair dye, hairdressers, handbrake, lanes, lockdown, Mini, nursing, PPE, team, tractors, urinary catheters
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Half term
The word ‘half term’ has lost a bit of its significance during lockdown. I mean, is it half term? Are we sure? Is it still May? And what day of the week is it anyway? But no, it’s definitely half … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged blue tits, buttercups, childcare, children, countryside, COVID-19, devon, grandparents, half term, holiday clubs, keyworker children, keyworkers, meadow, parenting, phased return, pod, schools, swifts, uniforms
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One of the Many Days
Autumn is here. It was dark coming back from Brownies with Little Owl and her friend last night. Black clouds scudded across the sky. I was hustled and bustled by the wind on my bike this morning. One minute I … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged acorns, autumn, baby carrier, bats, bike, bike ride, blackberries, Brownies, children, clouds, conkers, countryside, dark, dawn, early morning, evenings, extract, family, fungi, night, Norman MacCaig, One of the Many Days, parenting, poem, poetry, quote, rose hips, rowan, seasons, storm, storm ali, walk, wind
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